Nice work! It is scary the first time. I remember the first time I wet sanded the hood on my old Red 986. Have you tried skipping past several of those grits. I find with head lights I can start with 600 and jump right to 1500 and then use a medium compound than polish. Of course I'm just getting rid of sun damage, you had a bad scratch.

Again great job!

Thanks Whip!
Yeah, I probably went overboard with the steps, but I was ascared :p

I'll be doing my rear bumper cover if and when I ever get caught up on retrofits. I'm really scared to do that, but nothing ventured, nothing gained!

I use the 3M headlight restoration kits with great success. if you never done this before use this kit with at least a very good drill. If you follow the instruction completely and to the letter you will have amazing results.

The key to this kit is the wet sanding P3000 Trizact disc.

http://japserviceparts.co.uk/media/c...on-system1.jpg

someone backed into me while I was parked and they ended paying for a new headlight, along with fixing the front bumper.
But the new headlight didn't match the old one because of the hazing. I've been to scared to try this myself. :o

As usual, Particle, I'm impressed by your work and educated by your post, nice job!

On the topic of headlight lens restoration, I noted FCP Euro strongly recommends the Sylvania kit, presumedly because it seems to be the only one (that I've noticed) that contains a "uv protectant remover spray." Can anyone with experience comment on whether this is beneficial when doing the outside surface of the lens? And does this layer need to be replaced after refinishing?

Thanks

Thanks BL! :D
I'm just really OCD and kinda crazy. ;)

I don't know about the spray, but sanding takes the UV coat off just fine.

Yes, if you strip the outside of the lens past the UV coat, a new UV coat must be applied or it will quickly yellow again. Buffing with compound or polish to reduce haze usually doesn't affect the coat much, but if sanding is required, that coat is gone.
I've been researching UV coating and curing lights and it seems Opti-Coat 2.0 is the way to go for long lasting professional UV protection.

Have you done any 996.2 headlights yet? How do you remove the lens.

These?

http://i875.photobucket.com/albums/a...77E73135B6.jpg


No, but I really, really want to! :D

Just a side note if you do spray a coating of clear or hard uv spray , there is no need to buff the plastic optically perfect before spraying. If I spray I just final wetsand with 1500 to 2000 before spraying.

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